001Good afternoon. It is 12:15 on September 15th. Welcome to this special board of directors meeting. The first item on our agenda is to adopt the agenda. Is there a motion? >> Sorry. >> The agenda as presented second to Director Growalt moves that we adopt the agenda as presented. Seconded by Director Perkins. All in favor? >> I. >> Opposed? So moved. >> I just wanted to let everybody know who's watching in person that we are having some technical difficulties and we cannot display the agenda on the screen currently. The next item on our agenda is matters reserved for board action ratification. So section A, ratification of collective bargaining agreement between Evergreen Public Schools number 114 and public schools employees of Evergreen PSSE. Is there a motion? >> I move adoption of the uh collective bargaining agreement
002between Evergreen Public Schools number 114 and public school employees of Evergreen PSSE. >> Seconded. Is there any discussion? I would just like to say that um I appreciate the union and district bargaining teams for coming to an agreement and helping get our school year off to now what I hope is a good start. Um, we appreciate all of our PSSE staff, our classified staff, and our district staff, and look forward to continuing to work together for the rest of the school year and beyond. >> I would echo that too, um, President Weatherspoon, that, uh, now that we come to a resolution that everybody comes together and we serve our students and our families and communities and keep on doing the work that's right for our students. and we have a great school year. >> Absolutely
003would agree with both of you. Thank you. >> Same here. Agreed. >> Same here. Same here. I enjoyed visiting a couple of schools today and it was good to see just the excitement and all the kids. They were really, you know, having fun and glad to get back to it. So, yeah, just for the staff just we just hope you have a good year. Thanks. >> I also visited a couple of schools and uh saw the same thing. So, I know the kids are glad to be back be back there and I'm glad that we'll be able to serve them now. >> All right. Hearing no further discussion. All in favor? >> I >> oppose. >> So moved. The next item on our agenda is revision to our 2025 2026 school calendar. Is there a
004motion? >> I move to approve the revised calendar as submitted. >> Second. >> Is there any discussion? I do know that there was some concern out there about the how we were going to revise the calendar if we would be adding time or days and I just wanted to assure everybody that we added as many days as that were lost to due to the delay of school at the start of the school year. So everything's been added back in. >> Can I add a comment? >> Yes, please. Uh there were some days that were bargained days for the teachers association within the calendar and I just wanted to extend a thank you to them. They have come together and agreed to move those days to the end of the calendar and that allowed for us
005to not have to move the graduation dates and so that was a really big deal for that undertaking and in such a short turnaround time. There's also a lot of changes to the calendar with respect to uh the trimester, the semester, the grading days, early releases, and um those are being worked on by our executive director of instruction and leadership, Bobby Height. And so she will be uh getting a lot of that information out this afternoon um as long as everything is approved on the regular district calendar. One uh thing that I just wanted to highlight um the days that are in pink on here that are being shown, those are representing the days that uh we didn't have school and now that we do. And on the day before Thanksgiving, it was a no
006school day, but it is going to be a K12 early release that day. All the rest of the early releases and changes that will come from our executive director sharing that information at a later later this afternoon. Thank you very much. >> Is there any further discussion? >> I just want to say thank you to the team for getting this out so quickly, you know, turned around um all the people talked to and out to the community um as quickly as they did. I know this wasn't easy. It's never easy. It takes us months every year to get this calendar together. So to be able to get this um out in front of the community today um is a huge undertaking. So thank you all very much for for getting this done. extension to a
007lot of people that were involved including all the union partners came together um last week as well to to we know the importance of needing to get this out. So >> yes, extend that. Thank you. >> This left a lot of families with anxiety especially over graduation. So I know a lot of people that will be very thankful. So >> we appreciate the efforts of everybody coming together to get this done so quickly. >> Absolutely. Yeah. Amen. All right. Um, hearing no further discussion. Um, Director Boken moved that we adopt the revised calendar submitted, seconded by Director Wilson. All in favor? >> I. >> Opposed? So moved. Now the board will go into a recess. It is 12:22. We're going to go into a short recess followed by workshop to discuss our WASA general assembly.
008Thank you.